Category Archives: Places to Go

How I spent the first day of my vacation — or — The splendor of Toad Suck

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Roger

My in-laws live in the thriving city of Conway. It was a dinky half-dead town when I first visited 29 years ago, but since then it has become a commuter community for Little Rock and the place where every franchise … Continue reading →

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Dog n Suds — Paragould, Arkansas

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Roger

Let me say right at the start that if this had been my first visit to a Dog n Suds, I would not have embarked on my quest to visit them all. I had an idea of what I would … Continue reading →

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San Antonio Botanical Gardens

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Roger

Problem: Our flight to Chicago was at 2:15 pm. We didn’t need to be at the San Antonio airport until 12:30 or so. We had a morning to kill. We contemplated going to the top of the Tower of the … Continue reading →

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Rockport, Texas

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Roger

By 2:00 or so, it was evident to me that Aransas was a bust, birdwise. I knew it might be a long time before I returned to south Texas, so I determined to find somewhere else to spend a few … Continue reading →

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Aransas National Wildlife Refuge — Austwell, Texas

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Roger

There’s a lot about birds in this post, so if you’re not interested, you might want to skip it. But there’s also some stuff about wild pigs and Alligators … Aransas is the Mecca for birders, primarily because it’s the … Continue reading →

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